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• n  fighting with knives

• In the mannered cut-and-thrust of debate, her points are as emphatic as the slap of a wet cod across a face.
• Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who loves the cut-and-thrust of parliamentary debate, poured scorn on the Tories, dubbed Heath as "this Sir Galahad" who, he claimed, had deliberately .
• Barzel takes obvious delight in the cut-and-thrust of political battle; if his audiences are too friendly and attentive, he tends to lose some of his oratorical spark.

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News & Articles

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• Toyota has launched the first public trials of its ultra-compact i-Road electric three-wheeled 'personal mobility ...
  Toyota has launched the first public trials of its ultra-compact i-Road electric three-wheeled “personal mobility vehicle” to find out how it shapes up in the cut-and-thrust of real-world urban driving.
  March 25, 2014 - The Auto Channel

Quotes

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• Michael Portillo in guardian.co.uk
  Mr Portillo said: "I have been considering my future for some time and I have decided that it should lie outside the House of Commons. In a number of ways I have lost my enthusiasm for the cut-and-thrust of the chamber and my contribution to it has...